En nordrysk ikonmålarhandbok i Sverige

Summary An extensive Russian manuscript containing the iconographer's manual (The Royal Library, Stockholm, Acc. No. 1975–116) presents on 502 pages more than 1400 descriptions of saints along with a great number of motives connected to the church feasts. According to linguistic features, orthography, watermarks and content it was written about 1831 in Northern Russia, probably near Tikhvin. The present article contains a short paleographic description of the manuscript and an analysis of its age and geographic attachment. Such manuals including the textual description of the motives are called iconographer's manuals or iconographie guides in literature. The second type of the manuals, the one with patterns, or figures, is also called iconographie guide, or figurative iconographic patternbook, or podlinnik in Russian. However, in the Russian tradition podlinnik means any kind of manual, with textual description or with patterns. The most clear terminology is to use the term iconographer's manual on both t...